State v. MacHado

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding admissible, to prove motive for murder, testimony that the defendant pushed and yelled at his girlfriend A-2152-17T1 18 after she expressed intent to have an abortion
• “Declarations of the victim’s state of mind, however, should not be used to prove the defendant’s motivation or conduct.”
• “When the victim’s declarations do not express fear of the defendant, they might be admissible under an exception to the hearsay rule as a declaration of the victim’s state of mind * * *.”
• evidence of victim's state of mind offered as part of case-in-chief
• evidence of victim’s state of mind offered as part of case-in-chief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-01-24· cited 445×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1989-08-03· cited 184×
• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• State v. Long
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-07-15· cited 114×
• State v. Calleia
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2011-06-09· cited 62×
• State v. Stephen F. Scharf(074922)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2016-07-18· cited 56×
• State v. Kutz
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2003-09-25· cited 50×
• State v. Vasquez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1993-05-27· cited 31×
• State v. Fulston
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1999-10-20· cited 9×
• State v. Dreher
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-10-04· cited 8×
• State v. Burris
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2002-12-30· cited 2×
• STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. SANDRO VARGAS (15-08-1756, ESSEX COUNTY AND STATEWIDE)
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2020-06-04